Of blood, bedewed me with these crimson drops."
Æschylus.
The tradition of the meeting of Iphigenia with her father in the lower regions, after his death, when the latter was ignorant of the
infamy of her mother, and the cause of her father's death, is thus beautifully described:—
"Iphigenia. Father! I now may lean upon your breast,
And you with unreverted eyes will grasp
Iphigenia's hand.
We are not shades
Surely! for yours throbs yet,
And did my blood